The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 93
; it is, indeed, like the dove of Noah,in that she found no rest upon the face of the wa^ters, but like her in this also,LO, IN HERMOUTH WAS AN OLIVE BRANCH,PLUCKED OFF. i H E fourth essential elc^ment of the Gothic mindwas above stated to bethe sense of the GRO^TESQyE;butIshalIdefer the endeavour… … insist upon it here^ because every reader familiar Rigiditywith Gothic architecture must understand whatI mean, and will, I beHeve, have no hesitation inadmitting that the tendency to deHght in fantasticand ludicrous, as well as in sublime, images, is auniversal instinct of the Gothic imagination.…
Architecture, Gothic
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